This is going to be short

It was a decent week, not as great as i hoped, but fine. Our pool is getting smaller and smaller. So we are going to have to go back into what i like to call the "finding stage." You returned missionaries know this stage as "hell." Just kidding. Yesterday we worked our butts off and taught 8 lessons, finding 10 new investigators. All the Lord asks for is our effort. If we are willing to give it, he is willing to bless us. Its not necessarily fun, but worth it if you are willing to take a walk of faith.

Friday we had a lidership conference in Porto Alegre. It was fun, but 105 degrees on a hot smelly bus is not fun. We had to bust it back in suits to do two baptismal interviews. Luciano (see pictures) passed and was baptized that night. He´s the man. Rosangie also passed, but then when i told her what time the baptism would be was like, wait, I´m not going to get baptized without my husband... Ahhh! Her husbands name is Reni. His brain is fried from 30 years of drinking. He just got out of a clinic where he was baptized by some dude from who knows what church. Basically as many times as we explain AUTHORITY he cant understand why the alcoholic from the clinic doesnt have it. He also is Brasilian, and believes that the only sins are killing and robbing. If you dont do those two things WHY do you need to do things like pay tithing, or live the word or wisdom. "Your not hurting any one else.." Yes, you heard me right, a guy that spent his families life savings putting him into a clinic off and on for 5 years thinks that he is only hurting himself. I love people.

Other than that we have just been doing fun finding activites to try and find new poeple to teach. Namely, knocking doors. But i have a new strategy that i would encourage all missionaries to follow. I call it "the wrong door approach." It goes like this.. You make up a name, and knock. You say does this person live here...? They say no.. why do you ask, and IMMEDIATELY come out to the fence. (Brasilians are super suspicious) Thats when i ask how long they have lived there, and show them my cute little pamphlet. Its genius. 

I love Hot tomales, Mitt Romney, and Coka Cola. The Great Apostasy happened. I PROMISE. If you dont believe me look up James E. Talmage. After that Christ decided that we were worth saving. How grateful i am for that. How grateful i am for the Restoration of the gospel. If you dont have a testimony of it, get one. It will make you so much happier.

Tchau gurizada.